Michael Scammell is the author of Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic and Solzhenitsyn, A Biography. He has translated books by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nabokov into English and writes regularly about Russian and East European literature.

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12 December 2018

December 11, 2018 was the hundredth anniversary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's birthday. An op-ed I wrote to mark the occasion was published yesterday in the online edition of the New York Times and shorter version appears today in the print edition. The longer version can be checked out...